Pricing is the single most important decision for enterprise startups
Martin Casado · Fireside Chat: Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Mar 19, 2019 · at 7:01
Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses enterprise go-to-market strategy at Data Driven NYC, citing a board lesson from Ben Horowitz.
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“Especially in enterprise, there is no single decision that you make that's more important or directly tied to your value than pricing.”
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